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Camera counter change? Image(000) to Image(814)?

2 replies · 2,144 views · Started 29 July 2004

Since January, I've taken 814 pictures with my 6600. A couple of days back I full-formatted the phone and noticed that the Camera created filename counter was reset to Image(001) (after just Image). The last file created by the cam was Image(814). Is it possible to bump up the counter? If yes, how?

I use PC Suite to transfer all my images, so they all get the correct date and time stamp, and then i sort them into folders in a Year\Month\Day structure, so this camera reset isn't such a big issue - but I was just curious!

Any hope?

- Aalaap

aalaap wrote:Since January, I've taken 814 pictures with my 6600. A couple of days back I full-formatted the phone and noticed that the Camera created filename counter was reset to Image(001) (after just Image). The last file created by the cam was Image(814). Is it possible to bump up the counter? If yes, how?

I use PC Suite to transfer all my images, so they all get the correct date and time stamp, and then i sort them into folders in a Year\Month\Day structure, so this camera reset isn't such a big issue - but I was just curious!

Any hope?

- Aalaap

There isnt mate, all you could do is,change the 'default image name' camera/options/settings to 'photo' or whatever so in future they will be saved as 'photo(001) etc' at least this way it wont repeat the filenames you already have.

I only found out about this camera feature after i upgraded from a 3650 , at first i didnt like the idea of not being able to reset the counter but now ive taken a few pics its really handy as you dont get that annoying message on your pc telling you that the file name already exists and do you want to replace the one thats already saved .

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